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The SOHS Sawyer Collection

The images presented here are part of a donation we are calling the Sawyer Collection. The images have come from multiple photography studios, some of them unidentified. Most were taken by the Kiser Studio of Portland, Oregon in the 'Teens and early 'Twenties, especially of rugged scenes in Crater Lake and Glacier National Parks and along the Columbia River. A small collection was taken 1905-07 by photographer H. G. Peabody of Massachusetts and Maine urban and coastal scenes. An anonymous collection portrays architectural and rural views taken in Central Mexico in the same era.

The collection was saved and cared for by William Gruber, who had a long working relationship with the Portland photography studio Sawyer Service Inc. Gruber was the inventor of the popular View-Master, which he produced in collaboration with Sawyer’s. According to the donor, in 1939 Sawyer’s was poised to dispose of these glass plate negatives in order to focus on the View-Master, when Gruber offered to take the plates. Over the past eight decades, the Gruber family has meticulously maintained the collection of approximately 3,000 plates, weighing roughly half a ton. Southern Oregon Historical Society received the plates as a donation in 2019, and has made them publicly available with additional grant funding from Oregon Parks and Recreation and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

 SAWYER COLLECTION INDEX        WILLIAM GRUBER       WHEN THE COLLECTION ARRIVED AT SOHS     

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SWY1447

Glacier National Park--Belton Great Northern Hotel
SWY1448

Glacier National Park--Belton Great Northern Hotel
SWY1449

Glacier National Park--Belton Great Northern Hotel
SWY1450

Glacier National Park--Belton Great Northern Hotel
SWY1451

Glacier National Park--Flathead River near Belton
SWY1452

Glacier National Park--Granite Park Camp Looking Southeast from Mt Merritt
SWY1453

Glacier National Park--Granite Park Camp, Mt Cleveland from Mt Merritt
SWY1454

Granite Park Camp--Looking Northwest from Kipps Peak
SWY1455

Granite Park Camp--Mt Cleveland & Glens Lakes from Cheney Glacier
SWY1456

Granite Park Camp--Mt Merritt
SWY1457

Granite Park Camp--Mt Merritt Showing Glens Lake
SWY1458
SWY1459

Granite Park Camp--Party Camping, Kipps Peak
SWY1460

Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalets
SWY1461

Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalets
SWY1462

Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalets--Fog Effect
SWY1463

Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalets--Fog
SWY1464

Going-to-the-Sun Chalets
SWY1465

Glacier--Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalet--Boats, etc.
SWY1466

Glacier--Going-to-the-Sun Camp Showing Chalet
SWY1467

Glacier--Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalet
SWY1468

Glacier National Park--Going-to-the-Sun Camp Showing Chalets--Moonlight
SWY1469

Going-to-the-Sun Chalets
SWY1470

Going-to-the-Sun Chalets
SWY1471

Going-to-the-Sun Chalets
SWY1472

Glacier--Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chalet
SWY1473

Going-to-the-Sun Camp Showing Little Chalet
SWY1474

Going-to-the-Sun Camp Chicago Record-Herald Party & Donkeys
SWY1475

Oregon Trunk Railway--1 Mile North of Kloan
SWY1476

Oregon Trunk Railway--From Kloan Bridge
SWY1477

Oregon Trunk Railway--Showing Kloan Bridge over Deschutes River
SWY1478

Oregon Trunk Railway--Up River from 1 Mile North of Kloan
SWY1479

Oregon Trunk Railway--¾ Mile South of Sinamox
SWY1480

Oregon Trunk Railway--1¼ Mile South of Sinamox
SWY1481

Oregon Trunk Railway--1 Mile South of Oakbrook
SWY1482

Oregon Trunk Railway--Just Below Oakbrook--A.M.
SWY1483

Oregon Trunk Railway--Train Just Below Oakbrook
SWY1484

Oregon Trunk Railway--2 Miles South of Oakbrook
SWY1485

Oregon Trunk Railway Track & Cliffs 2 Miles South of Oakbrook
SWY1486

Oregon Trunk Railway--The Horseshoe from Highest Point
SWY1487

Oregon Trunk Railway--The Horseshoe Showing Train
SWY1488

Oregon Trunk Railway--Cliffs of the Horseshoe
SWY1489

Oregon Trunk Railway--Shearers
SWY1490

Oregon Trunk Railway--Rapids of the Deschutes--Shearer Station
SWY1491

Oregon Trunk Railway--Deschutes River from near First Crossing
SWY1492

Oregon Trunk Railway--Looking Up Deschutes River from near First Crossing
SWY1493

Oregon Trunk Railway--Looking Down the Deschutes River from Second Crossing
SWY1494

Oregon Trunk Railway--Looking Down Deschutes River from Second Crossing
SWY1495

Oregon Trunk Railway--Oak Springs, Tuscan Station
SWY1496

Oregon Trunk Railway--Oak Springs, Tuscan Station